The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-03-04
slenogmphict!ly reported for the MONITOR by
l.. Il, Ware.
speech of Henry George ON the labor
Problem. AT Horticultural Hall.
Philadelphia, February
18TH. fSS-.

Mn. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN, MEMBERS OF THE UNITED LABOR
PARTY OF PnTLADELpHIA.-I congratulate
you in advance upon a victory-upon vic
tory sure and certain. | care nos how
many votes you poll ON Tuesday next;
care not who is elected in beginning this
fight you have made the end sure. APP
rlause.l Nothing can withstand a great
TRUTH and 10. a great truth has come
again into our politics. For the rst time
in my life attempt to make political
speech in my native city. Applause. 1t
is over thirty years ago since | attended a
political meeting here. Then was boy.
At that time two old parties stood fronting
each other as they do to-day; two parties
whose names had lost their meaning, and
new party had just leaped into the arena,
party then insignificant in numbers,
party that received all the abuse, that got
all the misrepresentation ion that we do now,
but a party that had in the principles they
brought to the front the certain assurance
of final success. That was the Republican
party. | well rem ember going home one
day from school here, passing lndepend-
cncs Hall, and seeing great crowd, and |
asked what was the matter, and they told
me that they had caught an escaped mig
ger and were taking him back to slavery.
Aye. under the shadow of Independence
Hall, where that grand declaration of equal
and unalicnablc rights of men was first
read they were taking that man back to
slavery, as piece OF property; and wei
remember how when | said one day to my
Sunday school teacher ''how is it that
one man can own another mar Is it
right p and he said ''Oh. you must not
ask such questions as those laug hterl,
the negros are the property of the South
ern people; they have bought them, and to
go to question it would be to attack the
rights Of property" And you who are
old enough to remember, may well re-
member how i'll those days in this city, the
men who stood up to proclaim the eternal
truth that call men were created equal,
to proclaim the eternal truth that no law
could give to one man the right of
property in the flesh and blood OF another,
We're denounced as communists, as ode
strnctiyes, as atheists, as all that was
vile and wicked. But the truth went on,
and to-day, thank God for it, under the
shadow Of the American flag there
b.eatheS no chattel slave. Loud APP
plause
Chatte slavery is dead. The great curse
has been wiped away in blood, and the
party that under the providence of God
came to the front and brought about that
result has worn out its usefulness, has for
gotten its principles and must soon pass
away; but the principles of human liberty
must 60 on and on. [Applausel Though
chattel slavery is dead, more widespread
slavery remains in industrial slavery, Tap
plausel form Of slavery that brushes
both the white and the black; that extends
over all the Union, aye, over all the civil
lied world, and it is ours tonight, in this
city Of Philadelphia, to again begin grand
crusade, loud applause to again take up
the words Of Thomas Jefferson ringing
through the centuries, to again make pro-
clamaton OF the common fatherhood OF
God and the common Brotherhood of man );
(applausel to again declare that the re-
public must take another step forward. 1t
is to that that you are pledging yourselves
in this campaign, not the election of a
Mayor [Cries of ''no sir, . and laughter
and applausel BE true to principle. aud
that will come in its own good time. BE true
to principle and you will dietats not mere
~ who holds the chair Of Mayor, but Who
fill all the offices.